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There is at Thunodrunum a triumphal arch, which Di 

 Shaw thinks is more remarkable for its fize than for its 

 taile or execution ; but the fize is not extraordinary ; on the 

 other hand, both taile and execution are admirable. It is, 

 with all its parts, in the King's collection, and, taking the 

 whole together, is one of the moil beautiful landfcapes in 

 black and white now exiiling. The diflance, as well as the 

 fore-ground, are both from nature, and exceedingly well 

 calculated for fuch reprefentation. 



Before Dr Shaw's travels firft acquired the celebrity they 

 have maintained ever fince, there was a circumitance that 

 very nearly ruined their credit. He had ventured to fay in 

 converfation, that thefe Welled Sidi Boogannim were eaters 

 of lions, and this was confidered at Oxford, the univerfity 

 where he had fludicd, as a traveller's licenfe on the part of 

 the Doctor. They took it as a fubverfion of the natural or- 

 der of things, that a man mould eat a lion, when it had 

 long patted as almoil the peculiar province of the lion to 

 cat man. The Doctor flinched under the fagacity and fe- 

 verity of this criticifm ; he could not deny that the Welled 

 Sidi Boogannim did eat lions, as he had repeatedly faid ; 

 but he had not yet publifhed his travels, and therefore left 

 it out of his narrative, and only hinted at it after in his ap- 

 pendix. 



With all fubmiffion to that learned univerfity, I will not 

 difpute the lion's title to eating men ; but, fince it is not 

 founded upon patent, no confideration will make me ilifle 

 fae merit of Welled. Sidi Boogannim, who have turned the 

 chace upon the enemy. It is an hiilorical fact ; and I will 

 not fuffer the public to be milled by a mifreprefentation 



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